{"id":72089,"date":"2026-07-08T08:02:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=72089"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:04:37","slug":"male-chicks-and-tge-egg-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/07\/male-chicks-and-tge-egg-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Male chicks and the egg industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Egg companies who kill all males<br \/>\nTiny fluffy birds<br \/>\nSorted from the females<br \/>\nI am lost for words<br \/>\nMade to go down a conveyor<br \/>\nInto a mincing machine<br \/>\nOthers tossed into plastic sacks<br \/>\nTo perish it\u2019s obscene<br \/>\nLife force ended profitably<br \/>\nThe egg industry bosses<br \/>\nShould be brought to account<br \/>\nClearly no empathy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egg companies who kill all males Tiny fluffy birds Sorted from the females I am lost for words Made to go down a conveyor Into a mincing machine Others tossed into plastic sacks To perish it\u2019s obscene Life force ended &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2026\/07\/male-chicks-and-tge-egg-industry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[685,120,311,569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-likely-story","category-chickens","category-child-exploitation","category-eggs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72089"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72093,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72089\/revisions\/72093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}